President Donald Trump’s top aides have welcomed Border Patrol’s more aggressive tactics to secure arrests, such as repelling into apartment buildings from Black Hawk helicopters and jumping out of rental trucks in Home Depot parking lots, as they’ve become disappointed with ICE, the officials said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday ordered the top U.S. Border Patrol official overseeing an immigration crackdown in Chicago to appear in court every weekday until a November 5 hearing following allegations that agents unnecessarily used violent force and tear gas.

The Trump administration is reportedly preparing to overhaul leadership within U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, replacing roughly half of the agency’s regional directors with Border Patrol officials,

Its agents are immigration officers, like officials at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, which is also part of the Department of Homeland Security. While ICE has traditionally operated in the country, Border Patrol’s focus is the 6,000 miles of international border and a zone of about 100 miles inland.

The U.S. Border Patrol is coming under criticism from Chicago residents who claim federal agents disrupted a children's Halloween parade over the weekend.

CHICAGO (Reuters) -A federal judge on Tuesday chastised a top U.S. Border Patrol official leading President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in Chicago after a video appeared to show him deploying tear gas potentially in violation of a court order limiting its use against protesters.